Canal+ and RAI Enter Canadian Drama “Audrey’s Back”

French pay-TV company Canal+ and Italian public broadcaster RAI were absorbed Audrey is backThe Quebec dramedy about the return to life of a coma victim won the Grand Prix at this year’s Canneseries festival.

Germany’s Beta Film, which handles the show’s international sales, has struck deals with Canal+ and RAI, with future business in the works. beta started Audrey is back MIPTV on the market earlier this year.

Florence Longpre, who co-wrote the 10-part series, stars as the titular Audrey, a coma patient hospitalized after a graduation accident who suddenly wakes up after a decade and a half and slowly comes back to life and death. Talk, walk and remember the person you were. Co-creator Guillaume Lambert calls Audrey is back Typical “only 15 years late” age story.

Denis Bouchard, José Deschenes and Zeneb Blanchet star. Audrey is back Produced by Pixcom in association with Quebecor Media.

In a separate television deal, About Premium Content (APC) closed its first sales for another MIPTV standout: the Icelandic thriller. black port.

Community took over the North American rights to the eight-part crime series, with SBS taking over Australia, AMC Networks International securing Spain and Portugal, TG4 securing the TV rights in Ireland and RTS in Switzerland.

Gísli Örn Garoarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir created and will star in the film. black port, produced by Vesturport and Turbine Studios for Arte (France) and RUV (Iceland), with APC handling worldwide distribution rights. The series follows a young couple (Garóarsson and Filippusdóttir) who try to establish a small fishing empire in their Icelandic village, but their plans are threatened when the government starts imposing restrictive fishing quotas.